Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Beyoncé once again brought the internet to a standstill with the release of her eighth studio album “Cowboy Carter” last night, but she explains that she initially had different plans for the 27-track project.
The singer revealed that she intended for “Cowboy Carter” to come before “Renaissance” — the first in a trilogy of albums that arrived in 2022 — but the pandemic led her to change her plans. “This album took over five years,” she said in a press release. “It’s been really great to have the time and the grace to be able to take my time with it.
I was initially going to put ‘Cowboy Carter’ out first, but with the pandemic, there was too much heaviness in the world. We wanted to dance.
We deserved to dance. But I had to trust God’s timing.” Beyoncé, who rarely makes public statements, revealed that each song on “Carter” is inspired by a different Western film.
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